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If you haven’t yet created supplier of it – please, first go to menu Suppliers and create the supplier of accommodation (it can be hotel itself or group of hotels or apartment owner, etc.). If you have already created this supplier earlier – just skip this step
Go to menu Self-operated products and click Hotels.
🗒 Even if you’re going to create apartments or villas, they are created as “Hotels” and you will be able to specify the type of accommodation within settings.
On the Hotels page click Create a new hotel in order to create a new accommodation description.
The new hotel description page appears:
Fill in consequently all tabs. Pay special attention to configuration room types and meal types – without them you won’t be able to configure prices. Each tab is described in more details in the following sub-sections.
5. Once the description is made – follow the link Prices&Availability.
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6. Consequently fill in and save other sections within Information tab (Additional services, Tourists, Prices and Availability).
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Let us have a closer look at each sub-section within Information tab and examine the peculiarities of filling accommodation description.
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General Information
On the General information tab specify the following information:
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General info and address:
Name - type here the hotel's name.
Source of description - here the default option Own description is selected, since this is your local hotel description.
🗒 In case of integration with external suppliers via API they usually provide their own descriptions, so this parameter is important for differentiation of them.Code – for external hotels the code is assigned automatically by a supplier. For self-operated hotels however, you need to assign the code on your own. Locate mouse pointer into the Code box, and enter the sequence of Latin letters and numbers. Your hotel codes should be unique.
Hotel chain - select the hotel chain to which the hotel belongs.
Hotel type - select type of accommodation (e.g. Hotel, Recreation Center, Sanatorium etc.)
Category - select the hotel category of the hotel.
Country - select the country of hotel's location. After you have determined the country, select the city of hotel's location from the City drop-down. Then locate mouse pointer into the bar and type the factual postal code of the hotel. Select the district of hotel's location from the drop-down. Finally locate mouse pointer into the Address bar and type the address of the hotel's location.
Recommended - is implemented for own hotels. If to switch on this option on Back-Office, you can sort products by option “Recommended” on the results search page on the Website.
Internal Note in the description for OWN and EXTERNAL hotels. It may be used for internal notes. Also it is possible to use this note to display it on the Website via API for different goals (this may need customized implementation).
Upload a hotel logo (if it has any and you want to use it) using the Upload file form.
Contacts:
In the Contacts form, locate mouse pointers into the corresponding bars and type:hotel phone numbers
fax number
URL-link
contact e-mail addresses
🗒 All the boxes in the group are optional.
Classification:
Select the check boxes of your choice to specify the hotel classification. The parameters are classified in several groups. The information identified in the Classification group will be displayed on the Information about hotel page. With this additional logic you can specify & see whether hotel is near the beach or mountains, whether it’s modern or historical, budget or luxury and for what target audience is aimed.Characteristics:
The Characteristics group is used for entering basic information on accommodation (build year, territory area, quantity of floors, etc.). This group is used mainly for describing villas, but you can also add such a description for self-operated hotels. All information specified in this group is displayed on the Information about hotel page.
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